The House Always Wins

the online presence of Andrew W. H. House

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Category: Administrivia

More Site Administration

7 September, 2009 (15:52) | Administrivia | By: House

I’ve just upgraded the WordPress install to the latest version.  Everything seems to be working fine.
I have also taken this opportunity to purge the 129 “subscribers” who had registered with the site.  None of them had posted a comment, and they all had nonsense-seeming user names and suspicious e-mails, so I suspect they were attempted [...]

Back in the Saddle

10 August, 2008 (01:53) | Administrivia | By: House

I’m back in the blogging saddle again, after a nice long vacation.  It saddens me to realize I have a whole empty month in the archives of this blog now.
So, I only have a minor sort of excuse for the long absence.  The first couple of weeks of July were due to my own laziness, [...]

Woo hoo! Site upgrade!

15 May, 2008 (02:13) | Administrivia | By: House

So, I updated my WordPress installation from the default 2.0.something that came with my hosting account to the latest 2.5.1.  Now the back end administrative stuff is all swanky.
So, um, yeah.  That’s really all I’ve noticed so far, as it’s late, and I’ve just finished the install.  But, in celebration, I’m switching to a new [...]

Argh! I am filled with Internet rage!

24 April, 2008 (23:43) | Administrivia | By: House

So, I was working on a delightful post about Jackie Chan and Jet Li’s The Forbidden Kingdom.  I had a not-insignificant amount written, actually, when my Internet connection decided to die inexplicably.  Unfortunately, I discovered this when I saved my work in progress, and thus my work was sent off into the aether, apparently without [...]

A New Approach

8 March, 2008 (13:35) | Administrivia | By: House

My posting here has been somewhat languid, and I think it has been because I’ve been self-conscious at writing for a site with the explicit aim of reaching people I don’t know. My writing here has been polite and restrained, and ultimately somewhat lacking in personality. Consequently, I’ve never felt the drive to [...]

Why Start This Site?

24 October, 2007 (18:03) | Administrivia | By: House

When deciding to start up a new site — especially one that includes a blog component — the most important question to me is “Why?”. It is important because it determines your editorial slant and your motivation for putting together the site, which can also determine how well you’ll maintain it. So it [...]